Transformations based on continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields
Abstract
Here, we propose novel finite-dimensional spaces of well-behaved Rn → Rn transformations. The latter are obtained by (fast and highly-accurate) integration of continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields. The proposed method is simple yet highly expressive, effortlessly handles optional constraints (e.g., volume preservation and/or boundary conditions), and supports convenient modeling choices such as smoothing priors and coarse-to-fine analysis. Importantly, the proposed approach, partly due to its rapid likelihood evaluations and partly due to its other properties, facilitates tractable inference over rich transformation spaces, including using Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods. Its applications include, but are not limited to: monotonic regression (more generally, optimization over monotonic functions); modeling cumulative distribution functions or histograms; time-warping; image warping; image registration; real-time diffeomorphic image editing; data augmentation for image classifiers. Our GPU-based code is publicly available.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- DTU Compute, Kongens Lyngby (Denmark)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Nonproliferation and Verification Research and Development (NA-22)
- Contributing Org.:
- • O. Freifeld, K. Batmanghelich, and J.W. Fisher III are with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology, Cambridge MA 02319, USA. E- mail: {freifeld, kayhan, Fisher}@csail.mit.edu • S. Hauberg is with the Section for Cognitive Systems, DTU Compute, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark 2800. E- mail: sohau@dtu.dk
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1367523
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0002534
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 39; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0162-8828
- Publisher:
- IEEE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; trajectory; computational modeling; distribution functions; histograms; computer vision; biomedical imaging; complexity theory
Citation Formats
Freifeld, Oren, Hauberg, Soren, Batmanghelich, Kayhan, and Fisher, III, John W. Transformations based on continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2646685.
Freifeld, Oren, Hauberg, Soren, Batmanghelich, Kayhan, & Fisher, III, John W. Transformations based on continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2646685
Freifeld, Oren, Hauberg, Soren, Batmanghelich, Kayhan, and Fisher, III, John W. Wed .
"Transformations based on continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2646685. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1367523.
@article{osti_1367523,
title = {Transformations based on continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields},
author = {Freifeld, Oren and Hauberg, Soren and Batmanghelich, Kayhan and Fisher, III, John W.},
abstractNote = {Here, we propose novel finite-dimensional spaces of well-behaved Rn → Rn transformations. The latter are obtained by (fast and highly-accurate) integration of continuous piecewise-affine velocity fields. The proposed method is simple yet highly expressive, effortlessly handles optional constraints (e.g., volume preservation and/or boundary conditions), and supports convenient modeling choices such as smoothing priors and coarse-to-fine analysis. Importantly, the proposed approach, partly due to its rapid likelihood evaluations and partly due to its other properties, facilitates tractable inference over rich transformation spaces, including using Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods. Its applications include, but are not limited to: monotonic regression (more generally, optimization over monotonic functions); modeling cumulative distribution functions or histograms; time-warping; image warping; image registration; real-time diffeomorphic image editing; data augmentation for image classifiers. Our GPU-based code is publicly available.},
doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2646685},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
number = 12,
volume = 39,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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